Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Tea
Tea, James Tissot In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the image for the high-resolution version. Tissot here copied and expanded on a portion of another of his own paintings, Bad News. The change in context from the narrative of the latter painting gives this one a very different…
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Dan Beck
With a loose, gestural approach, North Carolina based painter Dan Beck appears to have applied paint to his canvasses with wild abandon — belying the carefully controlled values and nuanced color choices that make his compositions so effective. His vigorous application of rough-edged shapes dissolve many of his edges, leaving key sharp edged contrasts to…
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USDA Pomological Watercolors Digital Collection
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has placed online and extensive digital collection of late 19th and early 20th century watercolors of fruit varieties that were commissioned both as a botanical resource and as illustrations for the department’s publications. “Pomology” the study of fruit breeding and production. There are over 7,000 images of watercolors by two…
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Matt Rhodes
Matt Rhodes is lead concept artist on Dragon Age: Inquisition at Bioware. In both his professional and personal work, Rhodes combines economy of notation in his line with atmospheric application of color. If he weren’t kept busy by his concept art schedule, I’d love to see his style applied to comics. As one of his…
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Hans Heysen
Hans Heysen is another of those wonderful turn of the 20th century Australian artists that we just don’t hear enough about here in the U.S. Born in Germany, Heysen came to Australia with his parents at the age of 7. He studied in Australia and for four year, in Europe. He worked in oil, charcoal…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiffany glass mosaic
Garden Landscape, Louis Comfort Tiffany & Studio Favrille-glass mosaic, 103×114 in (263×290 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tiffany may have made this in preparation for work on the even larger Dream Garden mosaic, here in Philadelphia, on which he collaborated with Maxfield Parrish. I love the subtle, painterly representation of…